'Tanning Mom' Says She's Innocent and Critics Are 'Jealous': Believe Her?

by SodaHead Living Posted 2012/05/04 18:00:00

Related Topics: Tan, Tanning, Mom, School, State, Shopping, Free, Newspaper, TMZ, Fat, Guilty, Law, Sun

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Have you heard about the "tanning mom" yet? Patricia Krentcil of New Jersey has been accused of taking her 6-year-old daughter into a tanning booth, causing skin burns ... but she says she's innocent and her critics are "jealous."

"I'm innocent and it's proven... I would never -- never -- put my daughter in a tanning booth. We go out shopping. That's what we do," Krentcil told TMZ on Thursday. "Any mother that makes an accusation about me is not a mother, because I'm a great mother and I would never do that to my child." When asked by TMZ if she's the target of a witch hunt, Krentcil replied: "Yes. Yes. There's somebody out there on my whole life that doesn't like me because they're jealous, they're fat and they're ugly."

Krentcil does have some people on her side, though. The owner of City Tropics Salon in Nutley said employees who were there that day told him the girl remained outside with her father and brother and didn't go into the tanning booth while Krentcil was inside, CBS and The Associated Press report. New Jersey state law prohibits anyone under 14 from using a tanning salon.

Krentcil, who faces a second-degree child endangerment charge, pleaded not guilty in Newark Municipal Court on Wednesday morning; she's now free on a $2,500 cash bond. Police told The Nutley Sun newspaper they were called to the child's school April 24 because the kindergartner was in pain from a "pretty severe sunburn," and that she was complaining of itching, saying she had been to a tanning salon with her mom. Krentcil says her little girl got a sunburn from being outside on a warm day.

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Melizmatic 2012/05/04 18:15:10

No

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Oh yeah, I'm totally jelly of anyone who looks like a living, breathing Naugahyde ottoman.

Who wouldn't be?

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nadia bieber 2012/05/05 01:37:14

No

what the... ugh

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Jockey101 2012/05/05 01:33:30

No

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Skin Cancer anyone?

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penguin66 2012/05/05 01:33:16

Yes

UGH i hit NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!... NOT YES!!!!! I do not believe this woman. I mean have you seen her? the poor child is probably miserable!!!

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Max7 2012/05/05 01:30:02

No

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Why would anyone be jealous? She does not look real, and why would she do that to a child?Only God in heaven knows what lurks in the mind of women and men!

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Texas Gal 2012/05/05 01:17:36 (edited)

No

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This woman obviously needs help -- immediately. For her own well being as well as her daughter's - and any other children if there are more. I hope she doesn't already have cancer from what she has done to herself.

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Recruit 2012/05/05 01:09:09

No

she has nice shiney teeth...

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Nancy~P... to Recruit 2012/05/05 01:49:28

not even that....I hope this is enhanced photo because it is gruesome

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Recruit to Nancy~P... 2012/05/05 01:55:29

+1
lol...

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☥☽✪☾DAW ☽✪☾ 2012/05/05 01:04:50

No

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Seriously that women needs Help look at her face she makes Snooki skin complextion look normal

oh GAWD

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Shrinking Violet 2012/05/05 01:02:26

Yes

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i meant no. i do think that the mother has a distorted self image and probably does think that she looks good and others are "jealous". that would be why they call it tanerexia.

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Kidasha 2012/05/05 00:56:22

No

This woman is not fit to be a mother! She says her critics are jealous? Who would want to be jealous of that?! It's awful!

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Beagle Mom 2012/05/05 00:38:30

No

That is creepy!

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tom C 2012/05/05 00:34:23

No

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No I dont believe her Critics are jealous.....
The lady looks aweful............she has issues...

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Cinna 2012/05/05 00:32:42

No

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I don't get jealous of shrunken heads...

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Invader_Ellie_Slamacow 2012/05/05 00:24:02

Yes

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that little precious ball of cuteness doesn't look like she's seen a ray of UV light in her life.
her mother on the otherhand.....

*sniff sniff* do I smell bacon..?

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SlaveWaterNymph 2012/05/05 00:23:06

No

And for someone to say she is the best mom in the world, that is facing charges, are always liars. Take my mother, she always said, i never abused you, ashley, im the best mother in the whole world. I would say okay mother, then where did these scars come from? Or this and this??? Yea, just a damn liar. Sigh, cant trust people like that.

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BRIDGET 2012/05/05 00:17:40

No

SHE'S UGLY (TANNING) AND AS BAD AS PATSY RAMSEY

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Angecael 2012/05/05 00:13:09

No

Holy. What... Her face.. Oh my God someone call an ambulance or a horror movie director.

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sketchbone 2012/05/05 00:08:51

No

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Come on! Maybe she's just a fan of the Zulu parade....

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Osaka to sketchbone 2012/05/05 01:07:37

+1
Or the Gyaru Girl look from Japan.

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✿Britt ❤'s Steven Tyler✿ 2012/05/05 00:08:20 (edited)

No

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oh wow. she is way too tan. how can someoneone think that looks good. there is such thing as too tan. that is just gross looking. i always wondered what someones skin feelslike when they tan that much. probably the texture of leather. lol. ^_^

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Osaka 2012/05/05 00:00:13 (edited)

No

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My goodness, the super dark trend is slowly creeping into the US. O.O

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☢☠Wicked✠Desiree ☠☢ 2012/05/04 23:58:33

No

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oh my god she is so ugly.

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luvguins 2012/05/04 23:58:04

No

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She might be telling the truth that the kid was just in the room, but what an awful example she set. Plus she will shrivel up like a prune at the rate she's gone, not to mention getting a possible melanoma. This woman in NOT attractive this tanned, it's almost grotesque.

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Shrinki... to luvguins 2012/05/05 01:05:31

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i think she already reached grotesque...

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SOUL4REAL 2012/05/04 23:48:38

No

This woman is "CRAZY"!! What mother would be tanning like that, to where she look like a burned piece of meat!!! That tanning can cause cancer and subconsciously she trying to kill herself and her little 6 year old daughter!!! "Lock her azz up and throw the damn keys away!!!

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Jay Calderone 2012/05/04 23:47:12

No

jealous? she's ugly

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Artisan Rose ☽✪☾☥ 2012/05/04 23:45:47

No

+1
Hell she's darker than most Ganguro girls!!!

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Osaka to Artisan... 2012/05/05 01:09:38

You got it before me, LOL. There is darker Gals though.

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Artisan... to Osaka 2012/05/05 01:22:49

every time I see an overly tanned person I think of Ganguros.

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Osaka to Artisan... 2012/05/05 01:31:56

So do I, also when orangey, Oompa Loompas.

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Artisan... to Osaka 2012/05/05 01:39:34

+1

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Velia Cardenas 2012/05/04 23:34:35

No

i;m not jealous of anyone who willingly puts themselves at risk for skin cancer like that. who' she jealous of that she needs to go tan bcuz she has no color?

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Georgia50 2012/05/04 23:34:14

No

C'mon, guys. Stop ripping on Katie Couric like this.

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vis_viva 2012/05/04 23:26:47

No

I just threw up in my mouth a little.

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Kigan 2012/05/04 23:20:37

No

Oh yeah, I'm totally jealous of someone who has spent so much time "tanning" that her skin looks like the leather stretched over a couch.

That woman's appearance is disturbing.

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santa6642 2012/05/04 23:19:18

No

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I think mom needs to sit down and have a series talk with a shrink. Because she has lost it.

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Gary 2012/05/04 23:06:19

No

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In the photo you can see the damage to the child's skin- the red patches on her face and lower neck/upper chest looks like sunburn to me. While it's perfectly possible that it was caused by the natural sun, someone with the attitude of this so called "mother" would want their children to follow in their footsteps.

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Blaine STEVENS 2012/05/04 23:04:10

No

She is the color of FECES.

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DiViews2013 2012/05/04 23:03:15

Yes

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This is a bunch of media hype! Each time they show a picture of her she is darker than before. The woman has more than a tanning issue/problem, but I do not believe she placed her daughter in a tanning bed.

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